{"id":13873,"date":"2018-09-04T21:23:57","date_gmt":"2018-09-04T21:23:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13873"},"modified":"2018-09-04T21:23:57","modified_gmt":"2018-09-04T21:23:57","slug":"is-africa-getting-into-a-debt-trap-with-china","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/?p=13873","title":{"rendered":"Is Africa getting into a ‘debt trap’ with China?"},"content":{"rendered":"
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China<\/a> is Africa’s largest trading partner and has already spent tens of billions of dollars in investment and loans – with the promise of much more to come.<\/p>\n

From roads and railways to ports, the Chinese government is backing large-scale projects across Africa<\/a> as part of its so-called Belt and Road\u00a0initiative<\/a>.<\/p>\n

The leaders of more than 50 African countries have been in Beijing for a two-day summit<\/a>.<\/p>\n

China’s President Xi Jinping<\/a> offered $60bn in new financing deals. But what are the long-term financial risks?<\/p>\n

Presenter:<\/strong> Laura Kyle<\/p>\n

Guests:<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dan Wang – Economist Intelligence Unit\u00a0analyst<\/span><\/p>\n

Lahcen Haddad – Morocco’s former tourism minister and MP<\/p>\n

Aly-Khan Satchu –\u00a0CEO of investment advisory firm Rich Management Ltd<\/span><\/p>\n

Source:<\/span>\u00a0Al Jazeera News<\/span><\/p>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

China is Africa’s largest trading partner and has already spent tens of billions of dollars in investment and loans – with the promise of much more to come. From roads and railways to ports, the Chinese government is backing large-scale projects across Africa as part of its so-called Belt and Road\u00a0initiative. The leaders of more…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":10,"featured_media":13874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-middle_east_news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/10"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13873"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13873\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/13874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/qatar-news.org\/qatarnewsEn\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}